Final Draft

In the past century we saw technology evolve drastically. In a Information Processing class I have found out on the technology that has come out to the public that pretty soon we won't be using computers anymore and that we will have mini computers built in to our clothing and will help us with our every day chores. I don't think that that will happen write away but i know that keyboards will soon be know more. The history of changes in computer software tells me that in the future the devices like the Peregrine and Microsoft speech will take over the use of the keyboard.

In the past to have information you would have to write it down on paper,then the typewriter was inverted then the keyboard. Now we are starting to get used to Microsoft speech. Even though the software is still kind of sketchy it has room to update.

Microsoft Speech

This software first has to recognize your voice before you can actually start talking or I guess you could call it typing.I found myself when I would talk that the microphone would pick up different words than the ones i was actually saying. I guess when we type we fumble keys around and don't actually type the right word all the the time. So I guess speech wouldn't be any different for spell check than a keyboard would.

"Clearly, I’ve unearthed the world’s leading authority on speech-recognition foreign-language versions," David

The Peregrine

Keyboards aren't just used for typing, they are also used for hot keys in gaming photo and video editing software and much more. The peregrine is a device invented by Brett Baier that make the use of hot keys a lot more simple.

The Peregrine, I'm talking about is not the bird but the glove with keys built into the fingers and and activator pads built into your palm and thumb. The point of the glove is so you don't have to look at your keyboard to remember hot keys. It makes it quicker and easier for using hot keys for such things like PC gaming. You just press your a key(on your finger) with the activation pad (on your thumb and palm) to use a hot key sounds difficult but is quite easy. It makes editing a lot easier when your using advanced software.

Well those examples above are only a couple that came to my head I'm sure you heard of different gadgets that will help replace the keyboard. By change in history of our we wrote things down and the devices that are being invented now i believe that the keyboard will be no more.

References

http://blogs.msdn.com/chuckop/

http://www.microsoft.com/speech/speech2007/default.mspx

http://theperegrine.com/

http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/windowsvista/speech.aspx